On May 20, 2007, Joss wrote a stunning essay about Du'a Khalil Aswad's murder, violence against women depicted on film, and violence against women in general. Because of this impassioned plea for sanity in the world, I started doing more, a little at a time. I joined Equality Now awhile back and contribute "X" dollars a month to their causes. I write blogs once in awhile on subjects that are meaningful to me and try to be more aware and compassionate about what is happening to people, every single day.

I received the email below last Friday morning, the 28th. Below the text of the email are three links; one is to a gathering honoring Du'a Khalil and other women who were victims of honor killings, as well as what you personally can do to honor Du'a on April 7th, 2008, the anniversary of her murder. Last is a link to a discussion blog:

A year after the world was stunned by images of a 17 year old girl being stoned to death in Iraqi Kurdistan; an international panel will debate the rise of honour killings, violence against women, gender apartheid and political Islam in Kurdistan/Iraq and the Middle East.

The high profile speakers are women’s rights activists, academics and experts from Kurdistan, Iraq, Iran, Sweden, New Zealand, and Britain and include:

Just an FYI, but I went to the page for the t-shirts and I don't think it's working now. (This is 4/26/09) I was going to get another because mine is pretty faded, but I keep getting redirected to the QMX site and they don't have any.

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I'm a member of whedonesque, a feminist and long-time activist. I'm one of many folks that are either increasing or beginning "enlightened activity" to create gender equality for women in particular, and disenfranchised humanity in general.
Our mission statement is in Joss' May 20th whedonesque post.
"I am Dua Khalil" fundraising campaign and artwork was created by lexigeek, from an idea by Dale Koontz. Some blog color suggestions came from Numfar PTB and Tonya J.